Where From Here?

We're grateful to have arrived safely home and for our dear friend Jeff who picked us up at the airport - complete with cold drinks and door-to-door service. As always, your servants heart was an example. Thanks, Jeff!

We'll be following up with Steve Wright to start planning next steps and will seek guidance on God's will as we proceed. There are some outstanding facility needs to be addressed...from the visibly sagging roof in the Casa Grande, to enhancements for the Training Center building (mainly A/V related), to the need to increase and improve the lodging capacity for missionary students.

Here are a few final photos. I suspect we have over 500 between us...but these stuck with me.

"sign-off" on the section of driveway we installed

local volcano going off - last morning

croc about 10 feet long

we watched this bird stun the fish before tossing it up and swallowing it in one gulp

cool Iguana

It is finished!

After a long week of work of getting ready for the big pour…we did it! The section of the driveway is now complete.

This morning we got up extra early to get every last thing ready before the cement truck showed up at 8am. “When the truck shows up, it’s go time,” as Steve put it. And boy was he right. When the cement started to pour out of the truck we had to act fast and work hard before it dried. We had some challenges due to the slope of the driveway but we pushed through and we were finished at about noon. I don’t remember the last time I have worked this hard doing manual labor. I honestly don’t think I would have survived this week with out these other guys…Kirk, John and Alvin worked so hard that it pushed me to keep going.

Tonight we went to the Espinoza’s house for dinner and to hear about how they are serving in the mission field. Andres, Adriana and their 2 year old son Daniel are planning to go to France later this year to serve among Muslim immigrants and refugees. Adriana cooked us wonderful Costa Rican dinner. Andres shared with us their passion to reach Muslims in France in the hopes that they can return to their home countries to spread the Gospel. It was very encouraging to spend time with a family that is so committed to being obedient to God’s call!

Tomorrow is our fun day! And then it’s time to head home.

Paul